Telephones are devices that let you speak to someone (tele-, far; and phone-, sound).
The real mystery is why anyone who has the slightest clue about technology, would buy or wish to use a computer that runs software you cannot control or replace. Even the TRS-80 let you shut off the built-in Microsoft BASIC ROM, and the Apple ][ let you run something other than Integer BASIC. These allegedly "smart" so-called "telephones" seem quite brain-dead.
The real mystery is why anyone who has the slightest clue about technology, would buy or wish to use a computer that runs software you cannot control or replace.
Nobody with a clue "wishes" to use such a computer. They instead suffer through it because such computers are the only affordable ones, possibly because people without a clue are a bigger market [pineight.com]. Even on PCs, which computer lets you replace the BIOS?
Those complaints aren't about telephone features (Score:2)
Telephones are devices that let you speak to someone (tele-, far; and phone-, sound).
The real mystery is why anyone who has the slightest clue about technology, would buy or wish to use a computer that runs software you cannot control or replace. Even the TRS-80 let you shut off the built-in Microsoft BASIC ROM, and the Apple ][ let you run something other than Integer BASIC. These allegedly "smart" so-called "telephones" seem quite brain-dead.
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The real mystery is why anyone who has the slightest clue about technology, would buy or wish to use a computer that runs software you cannot control or replace.
Nobody with a clue "wishes" to use such a computer. They instead suffer through it because such computers are the only affordable ones, possibly because people without a clue are a bigger market [pineight.com]. Even on PCs, which computer lets you replace the BIOS?
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Most of them. I have installed a modified BIOS on many motherboards from many brands. (See BIOS-Mods.com [bios-mods.com] for more info)
The challenge is finding a working replacement.